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Did Blizzard Just Give Us a Hint About the Next Expansion? - World of Warcraft - MMORPG.com
SBFord
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Did Blizzard Just Give Us a Hint About the Next Expansion? - World of Warcraft - MMORPG.com
World of Warcraft News - A new armor has been datamined from the current World of Warcraft version sitting on the PTR. The new set is called Kul Tiras, the location once ruled by Admiral Daelin Proudmoore during the Second War. He is not coincidentally the father of Lady Jaina Proudmoore who has been largely absent in an unknown location for most of Legion.
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Hopefully after that, we'll get a more political, faction- and race-based expansion that is less about gloom and doom and more about things like Gnomes retaking their capital, Silvermoon finally being repaired and the inner tensions brewing in factions that may have repercussions later on.
How cool would it be to have a faction realignment?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Withdrawal symptoms were bad the first 30 days, after that it got easier and easier.
I have been WoW-Free for 5 months now!
*Flips her 5 Month Coin into the Air*
"My Fantasy is having two men at once...
One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
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"A good man can make you feel sexy,
strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
5 Months.... *pfft* You haven't even survived a whole expansion cycle!
See you next expack!
Crazkanuk
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Azarelos - 90 Hunter - Emerald
Durnzig - 90 Paladin - Emerald
Demonicron - 90 Death Knight - Emerald Dream - US
Tankinpain - 90 Monk - Azjol-Nerub - US
Brindell - 90 Warrior - Emerald Dream - US
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Don't get me wrong, we do still miss the game at times, but that is more due to missing the community than anything else. Most of the people I used to run with are long gone also, though many of us were raiding back during BC (you know, the good old days!) so this new-fangled version just ain't cutting it. We actually enjoyed MoP quite a bit, but WoD was just too much in the way of changes and it's only gotten worse, IMHO. The unending buff-nerf cycle that is inevitably tied to PvP and all of the crying and moaning there, removal of so many skills, gated flying...no, thanks.
It's still a great game, and is still the undisputed champion of MMOs (at least in terms of sheer number of players), but if you ask me it's just gotten to be too kid-centric, and the ridiculous fighting over flying has brought out the worst in some of the community. Give me a roll-back server and I'd be back immediately, but I highly doubt that will ever happen.
21 year MMO veteran
PvP Raid Leader
Lover of The Witcher & CD Projekt Red
In vanilla, this was gameplay as a paladin...same in BC...
Auto attack! Auto attack! Auto attack!
and
"WTF you are ret? Damn noob." *kicks out of group*
Classes and the game itself are way more fun. Demon hunters glide and around and do acrobatics everywhere. Very fun. Barely any MMOs have a class like the Demon Hunter. Warlocks feel far more like warlocks than they used to. Death knights pretty much get a necromancer-esque spec (Unholy). Artifacts are a lot of fun to use. I loved WoD garrisons, though I did like them more than the Legion garrison-light they did. WoD garrisons were way more involved than Legion ones (renamed to Class Halls)
And also, in vanilla, raids were gated to the 1% of everyone who played WoW and raided (proven by Blizzard that they themselves stated 99% of their players did NOT raid.) That is a HUGE sign of bad game design, which they fixed in later expansions and patches.
Not to mention there is so much content and stuff to do now. The content is no longer gated by 1% raiders, its open to everyone. that is GOOD design when you don't segregate a group of people who may not be hardcore raiders, which is a HUGE group of people mind you.
The only two things that are fail to me is PvP is junk compared to vanilla, but I only PVE anyway. And crafting has taken a nose dive, which is sad, but personally never did crafting that much anyway as items dropped in the dungeons were ALWAYS better (even in vanilla). Or maybe they weren't better stat wise (might remember wrong), but were at least far easier (and cheaper cause a drop is free lol) to get. And if I wanted a third negative, garrisons and garrison nerfed class halls don't count as housing to me lol. Garrisons sort of felt like it cause you could at least build, but not really and class halls feel less like housing to me.
Blizzard opened the game up to a huge group of people, and at first made the same mistake wildstar did and designed endgame for 1% of people (which is a tiny group of gamers), but instead of keeping at it and failing like wildstar did, they opened up the game to a huge audience. This has continued their success with WoW. Sure not at its golden age, but its still #1 western MMO out there, beating even free to play MMOs. That says a lot.
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